Senior DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

About the Role:We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5 - 10 years of experience to manage and improve cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms, automation, and reliability across Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud operations, with the ability to troubleshoot and operate infrastructure in regulated or closed-network environments.Key Responsibilities:- Manage, configure, and support GCP infrastructure and cloud platform services.- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Argo CD.- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, operational tasks, and environment management.- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and resource utilization.- Troubleshoot infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment, and application-platform issues.- Implement cloud security, access controls, configuration management, and operational best practices.- Support modern data platform services and workloads running on GCP.- Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement initiatives.- Work closely with development, data engineering, security, and architecture teams to support production environments.- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and infrastructure standards.Required Skills & Experience:- 510 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.- Strong hands-on experience with GCP.- Strong experience with Kubernetes and GKE.- Hands-on expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Argo CD.- Good understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, monitoring, and troubleshooting.- Experience supporting production cloud environments.- Strong understanding of containers, Linux, automation, and deployment practices.- Experience working in regulated, secure, or restricted-network environments is preferred.- Strong problem-solving and communication skills. (ref:hirist.tech) .